RE: Grumble...

["Sims, Ken" <KSIMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe -

>And just for more fun, here are my TCP/IP attributes.  
>Anybody see anything wrong here?  Especially the IP 
>forwarding?

It all looks okay to me.  IP datagram forwarding only needs to be *YES if
you have multiple interfaces and want the AS/400 to serve as a router to
forward packets between the interfaces on behalf of other devices on the
network.

I don't think Alex's comments about IP Source Routing are applicable since
the packet sniffer is not showing any traffic at all when you attempt to
ping off the subnet.  I would not expect to see any ARP packets, but you
should be seeing ICMP packets from the AS/400, regardless of whether the
router is going to properly handle them or not.  Therefore the problem must
be in the AS/400 itself.

The only things I can think of that could adversely impact the AS/400's
ability to ping off the subnet when it can ping on the subnet just fine are
the routing table, the interface, and the line, controller, and device
descriptions associated with the interface.  Assuming that you let the
system create the controller and device descriptions, and took defaults for
most of the parameters for the interface, routing, and line description, it
would be pretty hard to mess those up.

Have you tried running a communications trace on the line description?

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of
my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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